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PATENT OEEIOE.

NORMAN WARNER, OF JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR CUTTING WEDGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,264, dated November 28, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN WARNER, of Jasper county, State of Indiana, have invented certain Improvements in Machine for Cutting Wedges, of which the following is a speciiication:

riveted to the sides of the box B so as to form slides. E E are slides that work between the lugs D D. F is a plate of iron that rests upon the slides E E, and is adjusted by means of the thumb-screws V'V and the slides E E. G G are the slides for the chisel J I. H is the groove in the slides G G. I is the chisel. J is the sharp K is a rack that is riveted to the chisel. L is the lever-pinion that works in the rack K. M M are the bearings and braces for the lever-pinion L. N is the pin or bolt-hole in the lever-pinion L. O is a hollow shank for the handle P to fit in. l? is the handle of the lever-pinion L. Q is a block of hard wood inserted between the slides G G and bolted through the bed-timber A. This is placed here to let the chisel strike against, and also for a stop for the wood that is to be formed into a wedge.

R is a piece of wood in position to be made into a wedge. S is a dotted line, showing the path that the chisel travels. T represents the wedge that will be formed under the dotted line S after the chisel J I has been forced through the piece of wood. U U are the thumb-nuts made fast to the bottom of the iron box B and directly under the slides E E. VV are thumb-screws to adjust the plate F. W is the bolt that the stop-block Q is made fast to the bed-plate with. X X X are bolts that secure the slides G G to the boxB and the wooden bed A.

The operation of my improvement is as follows: rlhe handle P of the lever L is thrown forward, as in Fig. l., and the block R is placed between the slides G G upon the plate F, and the lever is then carried back, thus forcing the chiselV J I, by means of the pinion L and rack K, forward, and the wood is shoved Off Of the upper side of the wedge. By moving the slides E E up or down by means of the thumb-screws V V a wedge of any desired taper can be made.

I claim- A wedge-cutting machine, composed of the several parts herein shown and described, constructed and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORMAN WARNER.

Witnesses DEWITT C. HOPKINS,

NATHANIEL S. JOHNSON. (174) 

